From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 17 04:30:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F0B016A47E for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 04:30:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: from thing.verysmall.org (thing.verysmall.org [212.100.226.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D352643D49 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 04:30:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: from [192.168.2.4] (chello084114134105.3.15.vie.surfer.at [84.114.134.105]) by thing.verysmall.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF8122852; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 05:29:12 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <450CCF55.3080706@verysmall.org> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 06:30:13 +0200 From: "pobox@verysmall.org" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurence Sanford References: <200609161541.38002.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <450C55FA.5070701@verysmall.org> <450C81D6.2070503@wilderness.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <450C81D6.2070503@wilderness.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Bob , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is BuildWorld necessary? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 04:30:19 -0000 Laurence Sanford wrote: > pobox@verysmall.org wrote: >> >> But I have one question - do you rebuild the world on a remote machine >> (without physical access) and if yes - how do you restart in single >> user mode. This is what I can't understand so far. >> >> Thanks, >> Iv > > In 6 years, I've never dropped any machine to single user to do any part > of a buildworld upgrade. I've stopped many running services, but never > gone to single user. The only time I had any problems with this approach > was when I blindly flubbed versions in my supfile and cvsup'd a 6 system > with 4 source. That wasn't pretty. But it would have been not pretty in > single user mode as well. I heard this from another place as well. It just sounds too scary for me at the moment... But may be when I feel more comfortable with the things and/or there is no other way. Thanks anyway for pointing that out! Iv. --